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March 29, 2024

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  • Fox News stops running MyPillow commercials in a payment dispute with election denier Mike Lindell

    2 months, 15 days ago

    (AP) MINNEAPOLIS — MyPillow chief executive and prominent election denier Mike Lindell said Friday that Fox News has stopped running his company's commercials, disputing the network's assertion that it is simply because he hasn't paid his bills. Lindell went public by ...

  • Amid a mental health crisis, toy industry takes on a new role: building resilience

    5 months, 16 days ago

    (AP) NEW YORK — As more children emerge from the pandemic grappling with mental health issues, their parents are seeking ways for them to build emotional resilience. And toy companies are paying close attention. While still in its early phase, a ...

  • Auto workers still have room to expand their strike against car makers. But they also face risks

    6 months, 7 days ago

    (AP) Even after escalating its strike against Detroit automakers on Friday, the United Auto Workers union still has plenty of leverage in its effort to force the companies to agree to significant increases in pay and benefits. Only about 12% of ...

  • CES 2023: Smelling, touching take center stage in metaverse

    1 year, 2 months ago

    (AP) [{"text":"Remote-driven car rental service targets legions at CES with offer of free rides","url":"https://lasvegassun.com/news/2023/jan/07/remote-driven-car-rental-service-targets-legions-a/"},{"text":"Rebounding popularity of CES sets pace for rest of year’s business tourism","url":"https://lasvegassun.com/news/2023/jan/03/rebounding-popularity-of-ces-sets-pace-for-rest-of/"},{"text":"CES startups face cautious investors amid economic woes","url":"https://lasvegassun.com/news/2023/jan/05/ces-startups-face-cautious-investors-amid-economic/"}] Is the metaverse closer than we think? It depends ...

  • Vegas hitting jackpot as pandemic-weary visitors crowd back

    2 years, 11 months ago

    (AP) To Mike Anger in Midland, Michigan, a $100 round-trip airline flight and $260 for five nights at a Las Vegas hotel made it too easy to say yes. “How could I turn that down?” the 39-year-old electrician asked, holding a ...

  • 40 Under 40: Chris Walker, VDC Project Manager, The PENTA Building Group

    2 years, 12 months ago

    (AP) Chris Walker is an integral member of the Virtual Design and Construction Department at The PENTA Building Group. Walker helps support every aspect of the firm’s functions, from preconstruction services to operations. Walker recently facilitated PENTA’s drone program that pilots ...

  • Battered global tourism industry makes reopening plans

    3 years, 10 months ago

    (AP) Six months ago, the global tourism industry was celebrating a record year for travel. Now, it's decimated and facing a recovery that could take years. Tourism Economics, a data and consulting firm, predicts global travel demand won’t resume its normal ...

  • Louisiana OK's 1st riverboat casino request to move to land

    4 years, 3 months ago

    (AP) BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana approved its first application to move a riverboat casino to land. The Gaming Control Board approved the application from the owners of a Lake Charles-area riverboat 18 months after the legislature decided that state-regulated casinos ...

  • Most US workers still pay price of no paid parental leave

    4 years, 3 months ago

    (AP) NEW YORK — Nancy Glynn could not afford a funeral for her newborn son who died after a premature birth. She was already taking time off from her job as a waitress in Manchester, New Hampshire, to recover from a ...

  • Catalog retailers see reason for optimism after declines

    4 years, 3 months ago

    (AP) PORTLAND, Maine — Catalogs, those glossy paper-and-ink offerings of outdoor apparel, kitchenware and fruit baskets, are not yet headed for the recycling bin of history. Until recently, the future appeared grim for the mailbox-stuffers. A one-two punch of postal rate ...

  • Walmart alters disability reassignment policy to settle suit

    4 years, 4 months ago

    (AP) AUGUSTA, Maine — Walmart has agreed to change its national policy for reassigning disabled workers to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Maine. The settlement requires Walmart to offer disabled workers a vacant position ...

  • US job openings slip 1.7% in August as labor market slows

    4 years, 5 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — U.S. job openings fell 1.7% in August and hires edged down, bolstering views that the labor market may lose momentum as economic uncertainty and a manufacturing recession squeeze employers. The Labor Department says employers advertised 7.1 million available ...

  • Nevada added to suit to stop $26.5B Sprint-T-Mobile deal

    4 years, 9 months ago

    (AP) NEW YORK — Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Nevada are joining the legal fight against T-Mobile's $26.5 billion bid for Sprint in a case that lawyers on both sides say they hope will reach trial in October. Beau Buffier, a lawyer ...

  • Atlantic City casino revenue up, but newbies hurt others

    5 years, 2 months ago

    (AP) ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Two reopened casinos and half a year of sports betting helped push Atlantic City's casino revenue up 7.5 percent in 2018 to nearly $2.86 billion, state gambling regulators said last week. But the news was bad ...

  • Tesla plans 7 percent staff cut, says road ahead 'very difficult'

    5 years, 2 months ago

    (AP) Noting a "very difficult" road ahead, Tesla's CEO Elon Musk said Friday that the company would be cutting its staff by about 7 percent. The electric car and solar panel maker notified its employees about the staff cuts and other ...

  • Vegas hotel accuses new $4 billion resort of copying design

    5 years, 3 months ago

    (AP) The corporate owner of the Wynn and Encore on the Las Vegas Strip is accusing a company building a $4 billion casino across the street of copying its building design. Wynn Resorts Holdings has filed a federal trademark infringement lawsuit ...

  • Sears store in Henderson among those marked for closure

    5 years, 5 months ago

    (AP) NEW YORK — The Sears in Henderson is among 142 stores the company is closing as it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today, buckling under its massive debt load and staggering losses. The closures include both Sears and Kmart ...

  • William Hill, FanDuel begin mobile sports bets in New Jersey

    5 years, 6 months ago

    (AP) ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — New Jersey's mobile sports betting market is getting bigger as football season gets closer. The American affiliate of a major British bookmaker and a fantasy sports titan began offering mobile sports betting in New Jersey on ...

  • Nevada regulators reject deal with sports books operator

    5 years, 7 months ago

    (AP) Nevada gambling regulators rejected a proposed settlement on Thursday with a troubled sports books operator, which admitted to taking unlawful bets and making inaccurate payouts, and suggested revoking the company's license. The Nevada Gaming Commission deemed the suggested $250,000 fine ...

  • Elvis, Beatles memorabilia items on display at Hard Rock

    5 years, 8 months ago

    (AP) ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Elvis Presley's Rolls Royce, the suits the Beatles wore on their first tour of America, Bruce Springsteen's sleeveless faded denim jacket and colorful headband, and Michael Jackson's famous glove are among the items of music memorabilia ...

  • Fed raises key rate and sees possible acceleration in hikes

    5 years, 9 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve is raising its benchmark interest rate for the second time this year and signaling that it may step up its pace of rate increases because of solid economic growth and rising inflation. The Fed now ...

  • Borgata in Atlantic City will take sports bets Thursday morning

    5 years, 9 months ago

    (AP) ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Atlantic City's Borgata casino will start taking bets on sporting events Thursday morning. The casino told The Associated Press it will begin taking sports bets at 11 a.m. That's 30 minutes after Gov. Phil Murphy places ...

  • New Jersey governor: No timetable to act on sports bets

    5 years, 9 months ago

    (AP) TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said Friday his state will have sports betting "sooner rather than later," but gave himself no timetable to act on a bill to legalize it. Speaking a day after the state Legislature ...

  • The highest-paid CEOs by state

    5 years, 10 months ago

    (AP) Here are the top-paid CEOs by state for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. The survey considered only publicly traded companies with more than $1 billion in revenue that filed their proxy statements ...

  • US home sales fell 2.5 percent in April

    5 years, 10 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — U.S. sales of existing homes tumbled 2.5 percent in April — with the costs of buying a home jumping and would-be buyers facing a persistent shortage of properties on the market. The National Association of Realtors said Thursday ...

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